Thursday, February 20, 2014

Annual broadcast slated for February 21

Friday 21 February 2014
Annual shortwave broadcast of Radio Öömrang from Amrum Island, German North Frisian Islands

Schedule in 2013 was 1600-1659 UTC on 15215 kHz via Media Broadcast in Frisian dialect, German and English.

A reply in response to this year's planned broadcast:

Many thanks for your kind email. We would like to confirm that Radio Öömrang also will broadcast their
annual transmission on 15215 kHz by using the same time slot 1600-1659 UTC as last year, on Friday, February 21, 2014.

The program Radio Öömrang (Radio Amrum) is broadcast annually on February 21 (a North Frisian holiday) The program was founded by the radio amateur Arjan Kolzow on the island of Amrum in North Germany. The first shortwave broadcast was in 2006. The program is in the North Frisian language (Öömrang dialect) as well as Standard German . It is aimed to the descendants of North Frisian immigrants in North America.